Sentences with phrase «year orbit carries»

More precise observations should become possible as their 80 - year orbit carries them farther apart.

Not exact matches

Then a couple of years later we did the first launch of Falcon 9, version 1, and that had about a 10 - ton - to - orbit capability, so it was about 20 times the capability of Falcon 1, and also assigned to carry our Dragon spacecraft.

Its Falcon Heavy rocket will lift off later this year with the ability to carry 117,000 pounds into orbit — more than twice the payload of any other rocket operating today.

In the first half of this year, Elon Musk's Hawthorne, California - based SpaceX unveiled both an experimental reusable rocket stage and a new crew vehicle for carrying humans into orbit.

Massive ships waiting outside the orbit of Neptune carrying immense cargoes of untold wealth from millions of years of progress by unfettered minds so unlike ours.

And the ill - fated and controversial space capsule Liberty Bell 7 was raised from its watery grave almost exactly 40 years after it sank in the Atlantic Ocean, having carried the first astronaut, Gus Grissom, in a historic first orbit of the earth.

Late last year his company, SpaceX, became the first private firm to successfully recover a spacecraft from Earth orbit, another big advance in its long - term bid to be the first company to carry astronauts to the ISS.

Based on the four measurements carried out since 2004, he and his Berkeley colleague James Graham conclude that Fomalhaut's «planet» orbits the star every 2000 years.

The truth is, NASA has always relied on private industry to help design and build the vehicles that carry astronauts to space, from the Mercury capsule that carried John Glenn into orbit nearly 50 years ago to the space shuttle Discovery currently orbiting overhead.»

According to this theory, the companion would have to be in an elliptical orbit that carries it close to the red giant's puffed - up atmosphere every 8.5 years.

The Perseid shower reaches its peak once a year, in mid-August, when Earth's orbit carries the planet through the debris stream left behind by Comet Swift - Tuttle, a 26 - kilometer body that sheds ice and dust as it orbits the sun.

But, like Kepler - 186f, its 267 - day orbit also carries it around a star that is cooler and smaller than the sun, some 1,200 light - years away in the constellation Lyra.

It delivered the Hubble Space Telescope to orbit in 1990, and three years later carried a repair mission that fixed the defects that initially gave Hubble blurry vision — one of many daring space rescues.

The elongated orbit carries the companion every 8.5 years to within the puffed - up atmosphere of V Hydrae, where it gobbles up material from the bloated star.